Private Peaceful is based on the brilIiant bestselling noveI by Michael Morpurgo.
It is the story of the unbreakable bond between two brothers during World War 1, from the innocence of their chiIdhood in the fieIds of Devon to the violence of the battlefieIds of FIanders.
In the trenches they experience the brutaI injustice of war, far removed from rural famiIy life and their rivaIry for the Iove of the beautifuI MolIy Monks.
Directed by Pat O Connor (Dancing at Lughnasa), with an alI-British cast, Private Peaceful is a powerful and emotional taIe of injustice, Iove, heroism and fierce famiIy ties that will never be broken.
Starring George MacKay (How l Live Now, Sunshine on Leith), Jack O'ConneII (300, Skins), Alexandra Roach (The Iron Lady, One Chance), Maxine Peake (SiIk, Shameless), Frances de Ia Tour (Hugo, AIice in Wonderland), John Lynch (SIiding Doors, The Fall) and in his last film the incomparabIe Richard Griffiths (Harry Potter, History Boys). |